Taking Time to Evaluate Your Relationship with Your Wife
Ephesians 5:25 (NIV)
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her” – Ephesians 5:25 (NIV)
From the aforementioned Scripture, it is evident that God expects husbands to love their wives so much that he is prepared to die for her if it becomes necessary.
Loyalty to our wives are of paramount importance to God Almighty, as it demonstrates a love that is not fickle or superficial, does not allow shifting from person to person, or dependent on the moods or fancies of the husband. Rather it is that love, that makes him seek nothing but the highest good for his partner. It is a love that compels the husband to never feel any bitterness or desire for revenge, but to always seek the highest good for his wife.
Dr. Errol Bhola, author of ‘The Christian Home: Built on the Rock’ stated, “In Greece, in the days of the Apostle Paul, a wife existed for two purposes only: to raise up legitimate children, and to be faithful guardians of all affairs. In the Roman world, matters were even worse – persons were married to be divorced and later, be remarried. There was a woman who had eight husbands in five years, and another who had married her twenty-third husband, while she became his twenty-first wife!”
Based on the foregoing, Dr. Bhola posited that Paul’s plea, for husbands to love their wives came from a deep concern that society should be uplifted and strengthened through steadfast love; that civilization might be saved from the problems of broken homes and insecure domestic relationships. He concluded that Rome crumbled in its ‘home-life’ long before its final disintegration.
Husbands, we made a covenant before God and man: to love our wives for better, for worse, for richer, and poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, forsaking all others till death do us part. God will hold us responsible for the vows we made. We must allow nothing to quench our love for our wives. 1 Peter 3:7 states that husbands should give honour to their wives as unto the weaker vessel, as being joint-heirs of the grace of life, so that our prayers will not be hindered. Husbands, we have a responsibility.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, we ask that You bless our marriages, and teach us Holy Spirit how to honour our wives and families in accordance with Your Word. We take authority over every divisive work of the devil and his cohorts to disintegrate our family life in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen!
Read: Genesis 2:25; Ephesians 5:25-28; 1 Peter 3:7
Bible Reading Guide: Psalm 92; I Corinthians 3; I Chronicles 24; I Chronicles 25; I Chronicles 26:1-19
